Books published by Associated Publishing Company

The objective of this book is to elaborate the commercial chicken production system of India with our own farming perspectives. There is a striking difference between western and Indian poultry production systems, which has to be clearly understood for effective professional practice of poultry production in India. Largely, Indian poultry system is tropical climate based and our experience in tropical chicken egg production is unique.The content of commercial chicken egg production is sequentially presented in the book for easy and comprehensive learning and activities have also been provided at the end of each chapter for practice. The target audience for this book is undergraduate and postgraduate students of veterinary science, poultry science, commercial poultry farm managers, farming aspirants and practicing field veterinary technocrats etc.

Agroforestry is the growing of both trees and agricultural crops on the same piece of land. They are designed to provide tree and other crop products and at the same time protect, conserve, diversify and sustain vital economic, environmental, human and natural resources. Agroforestry differs from traditional forestry and agriculture by its focus on the interactions amongst components rather than just on the individual components themselves. Agroforestry is recently gained great importance nationally and internationally due to its role in providing large number of ecosystem services. This book covers all basic and applied aspect of agroforestry e.g. planning, designing, tree improvement, management, ecosystem services, climate change, industrialization, engineering and, agroforestry programmes and policy in an easy and understandable manner. The book has been prepared to serve as a reference book to all the stakeholders engaged in activities related to agroforestry development. This book can also be useful for teachers and students engaged in the field of agriculture, environmental science and engineering, climate science, policy planning and land use system designing, etc.

Animal Oncology is a completely comprehensive book written in simple language covering the pertinent information to inculcate the knowledge of Neoplasms to Veterinary Students, Researchers and Practitioners. This Book is also useful to Medical and Dental Students.Readers of Oncology, who are often highly confused due to their imagination and understanding of this subject, will find this Book as a boon, which alleviates the hindrances of understanding Oncology. Clear illustrations on each and every aspect of Veterinary Oncology have been provided for easy understanding and remembrance.This book has two portions namely General Oncology and Special Oncology. General Oncology deals with the general concepts of neoplasms in 14 Chapters and SpecialOncology deals with specific neoplasms pertaining to different body systems in 35 Chapters. Special Oncology has been fortified with 155 colour photographs that havebeen taken from various tumour cases diagnosed by me over a period of more than 10 years. These photographs with their legends will make students and practitionersto understand about almost all neoplasms that occur in Livestock and Poultry easily.Research Articles published by us pertaining to certain tumours have been included for the interest of Oncology researches. Special staining and immunohistochemicalillustrations provided to certain tumours in this Book will also be highly useful to Oncology researchers. The World Health Organization and World Health Animal Organization-approved, Gold standard technique to finalize a growth/swelling/mass/tumour is Histopathological reading that would be well enjoyed by any Veterinary Student or Practitioner who is reading this book.

There is a steady communication of microbes in the human life, scientific community updating their knowledge about microbes. The association between microbes and humans is very diverse. This book "Microbes for Humankind and Applications" will be a novel and useful collection of large applications of microbes in differentes areas like food, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, medical, agriculture, environment, industry etc. The idea is to compile a reference book in various aspect of microbes application, that will help the life science researchers. Our aim is to make available a massive variety of topics related to microbes within a single book. The all chapters bring advanced information with current references. We will focus on topics that are presently challenging with applications of microbes.

Agriculture - the base for our life has been affected the most due to chemical farming system. Although, this leads to the maximum production of the crops and the vegetables on one side but hyper toxification of soil and water on the other. We have to minimize such farming system at the earliest and adopt organic farming system for the better future of the generations in the years to come. Sources of various raw substrates and their bio-transformation in to organic compost are some of the major issues for the farming communities. The present book is a key to disclose sources and availability of such raw and bio-degradable substrates which are generated every day and are either thrown out or dumped in to different places causing air, water and soil pollution along with their easy bio-transformation technologies in to organic manure.

Energy efficiency for industry involves a vast spectrum as varied as the industry itself. This book focuses on the utilities in industries which narrows down the coverage to a finite area. Here the concentration is on industrial utilities such as boilers, air compressors, motors etc which support all industries even though the industries have different processes and manufacturing lines. There are 12 to 15 utilities commonly used in all industries and these consume a large proportion of energy. While the processes in each industry are more complex and require a high degree of intricate knowledge before any improvement is undertaken in the process, the utilities can be approached more easily for the purpose of energy efficiency. Processes may have some uniqueness but the utilities have more commonality with other industries. This book is based on 'hands on' experience of visiting almost all major industries in the country for the purpose of selling the concept of energy conservation and energy efficiency in their industry followed by sale of software systems, sensors and monitoring equipment. For this purpose, many presentations were made in the locations of the industries and with content specifically applicable to them. As energy costs in manufacturing form a large component of total production costs, energy efficiency concepts find a very receptive audience across the industries and across the hierarchy in every industry. Consequently, all industries and people comprising management, engineers and operators will find useful information in the book which they can consider practical and put it to use in their work. In the book, each utility has been assigned a chapter. Thus if an engineer needs to improve energy efficiency of an air compressor he can obtain all the steps required for achieving his objective.